Download or read book John Wilcock New York Years Complete Series written by Blurb, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN WILCOCK: NEW YORK YEARSA lavishly illustrated, extensively researched documentary comic book of real stories of the underground press, based in New York City, 1954-1972.Featuring: THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER, and THE UNDERGROUND PRESS SYNDICATE. Includes 100s of Cameos, including Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, and Many Others.Considered by many to be among the best comic series of the last ten years, John Wilcock introduces you to Wilcock himself, who participated in a seven year interview for this project. Provides many of his own documents, including OTHER SCENES. This comic book is a celebration of his cool "behind the scenes" life.Click to get your copy of the collected print volume

Download or read book John Wilcock New York Years Book One written by Ethan Persoff and and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very limited print run - 90 Pages, Full color, $22.50AS SEEN ON BOINGBOING.NET and in THE AMERICAN BYSTANDER - Never before offered for sale in a nice print collection, this is Book One of John Wilcock, New York Years.————————————————————————————————"A comic biography of an extraordinary, curiously unknown (almost) figure" — Print Magazine"Splendid...I love these John Wilcock comic strips...WHERE is the graphic novel of this so I can OWN IT?" - Graham Linehan (IT Crowd, Black Books, Father Ted)"Read this comic" - New Yorker Book Bench————————————————————————————————This is a biography of 1960s reporter John Wilcock, who managed to influence pop-culture, yet is considered an unknown figure. If you don't recognize his name, you certainly are aware of some of his creations:Arriving in New York in 1954, Wilcock attached a small postcard to a bookstore bulletin board asking why there wasn't a paper for the community in Greenwich Village. A year later, with Norman Mailer and a small group of other editors, this paper - The Village Voice - was formed. This comic book biography, which is also an extensive interview with Wilcock himself, tells John's story from the co-founding of the Village Voice, through connections with most of the art and music community of New York.Never before collected in print, here are all the comic strips for Book One. An Index and Directory, with references to the many locations, famous venues, and people is also included.A few highlights:The History of The Village Voice ... and The Rise and Fall of ECHO Magazine Interviews with Marilyn Monroe, Jean Shepherd, Ammon Hennacy, Moondog, Lenny Bruce, and more!The History of the Harvard Psilocybin ProjectThe introduction of LSD into New York, and its connections to Tim Leary and Michael HollingsheadTravel Writing - Tips on visiting Mexico, India, and the entire globe— A lavish, full color book of a widely praised comic book biography, you'll be delighted with this copy. —

Download or read book John Wilcock written by Ethan Persoff and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, this widely praised documentary comic series is collected together in one volume, with numerous extras. Featuring first-hand accounts of the creation of: THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER, and THE UNDERGROUND PRESS SYNDICATE. Includes 100s of Cameos, including Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, and Many Others. As selected in Houghton-Mifflin's Best American Comics series, this is a lavishly illustrated, extensively researched documentary comic book of real stories of the underground press, based in New York City, 1954-1972. Considered by many to be among the best comic series of the last ten years, John Wilcock introduces you to Wilcock himself, who participated in a seven year interview for this project. Provides many of his own documents, including OTHER SCENES. This comic book is a celebration of his cool "behind the scenes" life.

Download or read book John Wilcock New York Years Book Two written by Blurb, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to John Wilcock, Book One, this completes the entire story -- a true story at that -- of the quiet reporter from England who jumpstarted the entire underground newspaper movement of the 1960s. Book Two is a much wider selection of pages than Book One. Contains numerous extras, including a complete cover gallery of all newsstand covers of Wilcock's Other Scenes. Jump in!

Download or read book Manhattan Memories written by John Wilcock and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A GOOD WAY to describe John Wilcock is to say that he is a talented bohemian counter-culture journalist who once played a major role in the emergence of America's underground press. Born 1927 in Sheffield, England, he left school aged 16 to work on various newspapers in England, and on Toronto periodicals before moving to New York City. There in 1955 he became one of the five founders of the Village Voice in which he and co-founder Norman Mailer wrote weekly columns. Wilcock called his column "The Village Square", an intended pun. He and young Mailer were not quite friends, although Wilcock was at times annoyed, but always amused, by Mailer's monstrous ego." -From the preface of Manhattan Memories, by Martin Gardner His weekly column, which dates back to the early Village Voice years, and his cable TV travel show which has covered a score of countries, appear on his website at www.ojaiorange.com along with his personal magazine.

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Download or read book Impromptu Man written by Jonathan D. Moreno and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impromptu Man captures the remarkable impact of a singular genius, J.L. Moreno, whose creations—the best-known being psychodrama—have shaped our culture in myriad ways, many unrecognized. The record will be set straight for all time by this can’t-put-down biography, a tribute by Jonathan D. Moreno to his father’s masterly legacy.” —DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ J.L. Moreno (1889-1974), the father of psychodrama, was an early critic of Sigmund Freud, wrote landmark works of Viennese expressionism, founded an experimental theater where he discovered Peter Lorre, influenced Martin Buber, and became one of the most important psychiatrists and social scientists of his time. A mystic, theater impresario and inventor in his youth, Moreno immigrated to America in 1926, where he trained famous actors, introduced group therapy, and was a forerunner of humanistic psychology. As a social reformer, he reorganized schools and prisons, and designed New Deal planned communities for workers and farmers. Moreno’s methods have been adopted by improvisational theater groups, military organizations, educators, business leaders, and trial lawyers. His studies of social networks laid the groundwork for social media like Twitter and Facebook. Featuring interviews with Clay Shirky, Gloria Steinem, and Werner Erhard, among others, original documentary research, and the author’s own perspective growing up as the son of an innovative genius, Impromptu Man is both the study of a great and largely unsung figure of the last century and an epic history, taking readers from the creative chaos of early twentieth-century Vienna to the wired world of Silicon Valley. Jonathan D. Moreno, called the “most interesting bioethicist of our time” by the American Journal of Bioethics, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Download or read book White Light White Heat written by Richie Unterberger and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the influential cult band draws on dozens of new interviews and previously undiscovered archive sources, tracing their initial lack of success before they inspired and were championed by such artists as David Bowie. Original.

Download or read book A Year of Ritual written by Sandra Kynes and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepen your spiritual path through ritual It''s easy to lose ourselves in the everyday business of life. One way to bring our bodies, minds, and spirits into alignment is through ritual celebrations. A vital part of Wicca and Paganism, ritual strengthens our connection to nature and helps us enter the realm of the Divine. For Witches and Pagans of all levels, A Year of Ritual provides ready-made rituals for a full year of Sabbats and Esbats. Groups or solitary participants can use these easy-to-follow rituals straight from the book. Ideas, words, and directions for each ritual are included along with background information, preparation requirements, and themes. This unique sourcebook also explains basic formats and components for creating your own rituals.

Download or read book Andy Warhol Publisher written by Lucy Mulroney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely because of its cooperative and social nature. Journeying from the 1950s, when Warhol was starting to make his way through the New York advertising world, through the height of his career in the 1960s, to the last years of his life in the 1980s, Andy Warhol, Publisher unearths fresh archival material that reveals Warhol’s publications as complex projects involving a tantalizing cast of collaborators, shifting technologies, and a wide array of fervent readers. Lucy Mulroney shows that whether Warhol was creating children’s books, his infamous “boy book” for gay readers, writing works for established houses like Grove Press and Random House, helping found Interview magazine, or compiling a compendium of photography that he worked on to his death, he readily used the elements of publishing to further and disseminate his art. Warhol not only highlighted the impressive variety in our printed culture but also demonstrated how publishing can cement an artistic legacy.

Download or read book The Best American Comics 2017 written by Ben Katchor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning cartoonist Ben Katchor picks the best graphic pieces of the year.

Download or read book As It Turns Out written by Alice Sedgwick Wohl and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol. After unexpectedly coming across Edie’s image in a clip from Warhol’s extraordinary film Outer and Inner Space, Wohl was moved to put her inner dialogue with Bobby on the page in an attempt to reconstruct Edie’s life and figure out what made Edie and Andy such iconic figures in American culture. What was it about Andy that enabled him to anticipate so much of contemporary culture? Why did Edie draw attention wherever she went? Who exactly was she, who fascinated Warhol and captured the imagination of a generation? Wohl tells the story as only a sister could, from their childhood on a California ranch and the beginnings of Edie’s lifelong troubles in the world of their parents to her life and relationship with Warhol within the silver walls of the Factory, in the fashionable arenas of New York, and as projected in the various critically acclaimed films he made with her. As Wohl seeks to understand the conjunction of Edie and Andy, she writes with a keen critical eye and careful reflection about their enduring impact. As It Turns Out is a meditation addressed to her brother about their sister, about the girl behind the magnetic image, and about the culture she and Warhol introduced.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book The Free World written by Louis Menand and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post "The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice One of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of The Washington Post's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 | A Mother Jones best book of 2021 In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of “freedom” applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s residencies at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg’s friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin’s transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag’s challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America’s once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.

Download or read book Bananas written by Virginia Jenkins and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1880 most Americans had never seen a banana. By 1910 bananas were so common that streets were littered with their peels. Today Americans eat on average nearly seventy-five per year. More than a staple of the American diet, bananas have gained a secure place in the nation's culture and folklore. They have been recommended as the secret to longevity, the perfect food for infants, and the cure for warts, headaches, and stage fright. Essential to the cereal bowl and the pratfall, they remain a mainstay of jokes, songs, and wordplay even after a century of rapid change. Covering every aspect of the banana in American culture, from its beginnings as luxury food to its reputation in the 1910s as the “poor man's” fruit to its role today as a healthy, easy-to-carry snack, Bananas provides an insightful look at a fruit with appeal.

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Download or read book Feast of Excess written by George Cotkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33," his composition showcasing the power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later, the post-war avant-garde sought to liberate the art world by shattering the divide between high and low art.Feast of Excess presents an engaging and accessible portrait of the cultural extremism that emerged in the United States after World War II. This "New Sensibility," as termed by Susan Sontag, was predicated upon excess, pushing and often crossing boundaries whether in the direction of minimalism ormaximalism. Through brief vignette profiles of prominent figures in literature, music, visual art, poetry, theater and journalism, George Cotkin leads readers on a focused journey through the interconnected stories of prominent figures such as Andy Warhol, Anne Sexton, John Cage, John Coltrane, BobDylan, Erica Jong, and Chris Burden, among many others, who broke barriers between artist and audience with their bold, shocking, and headline-grabbing performances.This inventive narrative captures the sentiment of liberation from high and low culture in artistic endeavors spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s and reveals the establishment of excess in American culture as the norm. A detailed emersion in the history of cultural extremism, Feast of Excess leavesreaders to consider the provocative revelation that the essence of excess remains in our culture today, for good and ill.